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HOORAY!!!

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Do you mean: someone with a vulva, uterus, estrogen, large chest, etc.? -> SAY THAT!

Do you mean: someone with any combination of those traits? -> SAY THAT!

with any combination

of those traits? -> SAY THAT!

Help out your intersex friends.

We should all be talking about KOSA. The bill would mean the end of the open internet in the US, and it was just approved by a House committee for a floor vote. The act is ostensibly designed to regulate the age of social media users. However, it actually deanonymizes the internet and allows the government to sue LGBTQ+ websites.

Unsurprisingly, the Heritage Foundation is one of the main lobbying groups behind this push. They have publicly stated they want to use the law to restrict LGBTQ+ and abortion-related content. Blocking children under 16 from accessing the internet means young people will be isolated within their communities. They cannot discuss LGBTQ+ issues with their online peers. They could not request help to access abortion clinics. Senator Marsha Blackburn, who once personally sent the FBI to my doorstep to harass me, admits the law is intended to shield “minor children from the transgender [sic] in this culture.”

“The through-line couldn’t be clearer: destroying online anonymity is a way for government to be able to identify ¬— and ultimately punish — dissenters,” explains Ari Cohn, lead counsel for tech policy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. The DHS has already subpoenaed hundreds of anonymous accounts tracking and protesting ICE. KOSA would make it even easier for the government to access your data.

Reblog. Right now. Spread the word. Write to your congressman. Protest. Do anything you can to stop this from happening. If you think this isn't important, YES IT IS! THEY DID NOT STOP WITH OTHER STUFF, THEY WILL NOT STOP HERE. REBLOG. DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.

According to a message posted on their front page, Blingee.com is going to be permanently “turned off” on August 25. This is sad news. A while back, Doug (aka Internet History) and I began collecting death Blingees––sparkling tributes to dead pets, relatives, celebs, etc––and then we started posting our collection at RIP Blingee. 

There are a LOT of sad memorial Blingees: people in caskets, beloved pet birds, garbage-covered gravesites, old family photos, lifeless fetuses in little animated Santa hats. There are stupid, funny ones, too–the Oxy Clean guy, the Twin Towers, this thing:

Anyway, Blingee is going away forever. If you feel like mourning with us, you can pay your respects at RIP Blingee. We’re going to post as many as we can before they’re gone for good.

Ghibli took this concept far more seriously than your average run-of-the-mill piece that screams "LOOKIT ME! I GOT DEAD KIDS! I'M SO EDGY!" By paying more attention to the lives and feelings of this film's characters, instead of focusing on exploitive shock and gore, it forces you to see them as human beings instead of just a bloody spectacle. It treats the subject matter with far more respect.